It’s the final #FriendsAtSTH of 2025! After a jam packed 12 months, we’re rounding off the year with our final Town Hall Tea Dance of the year, glittering Christmas parties in partnership with KIN London, and workshops for creatives. Dive into this month’s blog for a look at the brilliant people and exciting events headed our way before the new year.

Live Events 

Christmas Social with KIN

Until 12 December

We’ve partnered with KIN for the second year running to host the epic Christmas Social. Providing a festive party that you and your colleagues would actually want to go to, our Christmas socials have extensive packages to suit every party, including unlimited drinks, to the best of KERB’s street food, and a decadent and glamorous theme – we’re thrilled to be bringing festive magic back to Shoreditch Town Hall. Find out more here.

Town Hall Tea Dance

15 December 

Come and kick off the merry season with our final Town Hall Tea Dance of the year! In this Festive Special, we’re serving mince pies and cosy drinks all in the splendour our Assembly Hall. Mr Wonderful will be there to help you dance those winters blues away, and you can even brush up on your moves beforehand with former world champion Raymond Root’s Beginners Dance Class. Tickets are on sale now, click here to book yours.

Supporting the Artistic Community

ThisEgg Rehearsals  

11 December

Continuing our commitment to supporting artists, ThisEgg are hosting rehearsals with us in December. Making form-led theatre that brings people together and responds to the world now, ThisEgg has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and received various awards and commissions, including a Scotsman Fringe First Award for their show A Little Inquest Into What We Are All Doing Here which had its London premiere in our Spring Programme earlier this year.

Elisabeth Gunawan & KISS WITNESS: 5 Elements Movement Practice & Sound Bath Workshop

18 December

Taught by Elisabeth Gunawan with a live sound bath by Jacqueline Berces, join us for a movement-based practice space designed for professional and pre-professional actors, dancers, and physical theatre performers. Rooted in the Chinese philosophy of the Five Elements (Wu Xing) – Earth, Wood, Fire, Water, and Metal – and their yin and yang qualities, this workshop explores how embodying elemental energies can nourish the performer’s imaginative and physical engine. Book your tickets here.

Local Lounge

Social Founders & Hackney Impact: Networking Event   

9 December

Hackney Social Founders have been supporting charities, community groups and social enterprises across Hackney since 2022. Part of the wider Social Founders network and a founding partner of the Hackney Impact consortium, they provide monthly networking forums, social founder talks, training and 1-2-1 mentorship for Hackney-based social founders. Through our Local Lounge scheme, they will be hosting a networking session for the Hackney Social Founders.

Hackney Society: Hackney Guides Interviews 

12 December and 18 December

Hackney Society are looking to raise Hackney’s profile and tell its many good stories with their accredited guiding course. They’re using Local Lounge to host interviews for the first ever Hackney guides, right in the heart of Hackney.

Looking for space to host your next community event? We are still taking bookings for Local Lounge slots up until Friday 19 December.